Mount Chimborazo
Mount Chimborazo is a mountain and an extinct volcano in Ecuador. Its last eruption is thought to have been over a thousand years ago.
The top of Mount Chimborazo is the farthest away from the centre of the Earth as is possible to get on land. Although Mount Everest is higher, Chimborazo is farther from Earth's center because the earth bulges at the equator.[1]
Mount Chimborazo Media
Aerial view of Chimborazo's glacier-covered summits casting a shadow over the Gran Arenal, the alpine desert to Chimborazo's west.
Layers of pyroclastic rock deposited during eruptions of Chimborazo
Alexander von Humboldt and his fellow scientist Aimé Bonpland at the foot of the Chimborazo volcano, painting by Friedrich Georg Weitsch (1810)
Map from 1839 of the distribution of plants according to elevation in the Americas
Chimborazo volcano in 1884 by Frederic Edwin Church
Sketch of Chimborazo huts, main summits, and routes
References
- ↑ Senne, Joseph H. (May 2000). "Did Edmund Hilary climb the wrong mountain?". May 2000 Volume 20 Number 5. Professional Surveyor Magazine. Retrieved 2008-10-24.
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